| 单词 | amalgamation |
| 释义 | amalgamation (once / 5840 pages) n You create an amalgamation by taking separate things and combining them into one. If your school is closing and joining with another school to create a new school, that is an amalgamation. Commonly, amalgamation is a term used to describe the merger of two or more companies into one. Before J.P Morgan Chase was a single bank (or an amalgamation), it was two separate entities: J.P. Morgan and the Chase Manhattan Corporation. When you want to describe something as being made up of many previously separate parts, you can say it's an amalgamation. WORD FAMILYamalgamation: amalgamations+/amalgam: amalgamate, amalgams/amalgamate: amalgamated, amalgamates, amalgamating, amalgamation, amalgamator/amalgamator: amalgamators USAGE EXAMPLESThe rise of the so-called alt-right—a loose amalgamation of white nationalists, misogynists, anti-Semites, and Islamophobes—provides a more sobering example of Poe’s law. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) Its voter base, however, is larger — an amalgamation of Germans fearing everything from foreigners to globalization. Washington Post(Nov 13, 2016) Gary McAllister of the Amalgamation of Northern Ireland Supporters Clubs said the water was "ankle deep" in parts. BBC(Nov 12, 2016) n the combination of two or more commercial companies Syn|Hyper merger, uniting consolidation, integration the act of combining into an integral whole |
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